Present Tens (Vishnu's Cosmic Slumber)

A reclining, fish-tailed figure stretches across a plush, earthen couch as if drifting between sleep and tide, the scale-patterned body turning the human form into a quiet conduit of water’s memory. Warm ochres and honeyed light dissolve the background into a dream-field where a radiant sun and a crescent moon hover in delicate tension, suggesting a cosmos held in suspension rather than in conflict. Lotus blossoms punctuate the scene like soft awakenings, their vertical stems countering the horizontal repose and implying renewal that rises even from stillness. The work reads as a meditation on metamorphosis—rest as a sacred interval in which terrestrial weight, aquatic instinct, and celestial cycles briefly reconcile.